The increase in food prices accelerated in Iran in September, when the cost of a basket of 45 staple food items showed a mighty leap of nearly 50 percent from the same month a year earlier, the Kargozaran newspaper reported Sunday, citing central bank figures.
For the three Iranian months of Tir, Mordad and Shahrivar (July to September), year-on-year food price inflation was 28.98, 40.08 and 48.46 percent respectively, taking the average increase for the summer period to 39.2 percent, the daily said.
Items monitored for the inflation figures include meat, beans, rice, sugar, fruits and dairy products.
Many economists have accused President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of directly fuelling the price rises by ploughing huge amounts of cash into the economy to fund local infrastructure projects and small production units.
In spite of efforts by the central bank to shrink the excessive volume of loans, analysts say the government has already injected so much oil money into the economy that inflation will remain high for months and years to come.
Ahmadinejad this week replaced the head of the central bank, Tahmasb Mazaheri, in a bid to bring more harmony to his economic team around his expansionary policies.
The central bank was eager to reassert its control of the money supply -- a key indicator of future inflation trends -- after annual inflation hit 26 percent in June.
In August, Iran's inflation rate reached 27.6 perce... >>>
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Mehdi Mazloo, these people
by Farhad Kashani on Mon Sep 29, 2008 05:57 AM PDTMehdi Mazloo, these people need to take common sense 101 and economy 101 classes. They’re saying even if food prices go up 50% and incomes don’t go up, which means people cant afford food, that’s not starvation!!! The audacity that these people have in defending the murderous Iranian regime is amazing, isn’t it Mehdi aziz?
re: Pure fabrications
by /./. (not verified) on Mon Sep 29, 2008 05:31 AM PDTThe entire "state of Israel" is fabrication. Why are you worried about their genocidal and merderous acts.
Mazloom, "legitimate food" ? LOL!
by Anonymous8 (not verified) on Mon Sep 29, 2008 04:07 AM PDTWow, the lows that some people are willing to bend to in order to justify murderous apartheid.
Pure fabrications
by Mehdi Mazloom on Sun Sep 28, 2008 03:11 PM PDTIsrael never blocked legitimate food from the Arabs in gaza. It is the belligerent actions of Hamas against Israeli civilians which forced Israel & Egypt to closed the border to gaza.
It is Hamas which uses the cement and other construction material to build bunkers instead of building their crumbling civilian infrastructure there. They use fertilizers sent to them from Israel to devise rocket to shoot it back at the Israeli civilians, instead of fertilize their fields.
Their man spend more time fertilizing their woman and keep them fully stocked with babies, with no means to feed and educate these children - instead of stocking their warehouses with food and medicine.
Inflation does not stave, blockade does ....
by Shini Head on Sun Sep 28, 2008 07:10 AM PDTFK,
Zio-Nazis blockading food, fuel and medicine that would enter Gaza strip starves and kills people (specially children), not inflation, honey.